Milk-bottle.



H. DIKEMAN.

MILK BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED-wma, 1913.

1,083,201. Patented DecQSO, 1913.

gnou/ufo@ otherfliquid's, lliable to contamination, andparticularlygtothatformkof bottle wherein UMTED STATES" yPainnr oFFioE.

HARVEY DIKEivrAN,A `or`nainsinofcoinanorieur,n AssIGnon 0F i TQWILLIAM nrorny, or DANBURY, cornmtz'rrc'nA 1 MILK-BOTTLE.

. Apliiicatin nieuwe 5, 1913.v seriaiuo. 771,981.

'.T 0 all whom 'it may concern Be' it'knownthat I, HARYEY Dikicimx;citizen ofthe United '.Slates,` residing at Danbury, in the co'untx'Tof* Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have vinvented Vcertain new anduseful Improvements in ilk-Bottles,`of which'V the following` is aspecica-` tion; I Y I 'My' invention relatesl to'b'ottles, such asare/adapted toj contain milk, cream, and

a fiat paste-board caplis used for the purpose of elosingthe mouth:of-thebottle.

In restaurants, delivery wagons,and freight cars, bottles of milk andcream are' packed in cases,'andto keep the milk, cracked ice or.largeicecakesfareplaced orerthe tops of thecases. There 1saf'considerable quantity ofdir't in ice,v especially where it is usedvin thisf manner and is vunprotectedfrom dust, a'noln'fhen` they bottleof anilk is broughtinto the-home or where the bott-le is served in arestaurant, 7the lface ofthe cap is very liable to have on it'water, orother liquid, and

'more-.or less' dirt,- blaclt speaks: and A. other residuev from'ythemeltedice. The upper face 'of the paste-board'bottle-cap thereforeforms a 4dirt collector.y and the capforms` a cup-which will retain'suchdirt. The dan-1v ger comes'in removing these caps. The cap cannotbeliftedstraight upwhether it is pried j out orl is.:l lifted by atab.-lOne edge must comeup lirst, ITThe cap inthe ordinary .milk bottle'is.:inserted 'within-a circular rim ywhichextends entirely around the 'cap'and which is-*sl'ightly smaller thanl the diameter oflthe'cafp=andhence the cap is' bound tightly in this'v "im, and when the capis lifted up one edge'comes up, first, and the cap is accordinglytipped.transversely across the mout-h of the bottle'so that dirt, dirtyWater, foreign matter, etc., runs off the edge of the cap and into themilk, thus contaminating the latter. rl`his milk may be poured from thebottle into a jug and kept for fu ture use, and in this case, the germswhich may bev in the milk. will of course,l thrive.

A and render the milk still more contaminated.

If the cap is cleaned, prior to being lifted from the bottle, noparticular damage, willv occur, butthis cleaning ofthe cap very rarelydone, and almost invariably the result is that no matter how clean themilk may have been in the first, instance, or how Specification ofLetters Patent. A Pilielil:v

lthe milk -not only dirti' waterafromrriltet lprovide amillt bottle of,

uncontaminated, in theaoperat-iilr, D the cap-*from the bottle thereisfduimpd into ice, but a number;of"dinthpaitlicilesighrc x germs.- -A-sbefore state Y`tbe11-1iinutl1mlfstlie aO bottle is formedvwith.#anbannniabi'i:seat 01 recess within which thefcapf-rtsandaevenftlieparticles of vdirt uponliefdapaaii positeduponatllns seat-hbjntheliftin giu-pan tiltinggo'f therapy, when tlgicin 'Il )our i i i ll'4 outthe mill jwill come dirt andthe K The `primal?,y object o,k theprovision of a milk g is so formedas to perm-fw dinary-l circularcardfboai will prevent .the tiltingnofi contamination "of the mil beforedescribed. og

A furtherobject of the for n the mouth of the bottletlia gin of thecapwill projec o" .Vond the mouth of thegho M hang, aS. it were. the ,r'iinogf. tV that no dirtcan possihl. i the mouth andl in thisA con the mouthof thebo'ttl'e hat. lu ticles of.l foreign matter iL off the roundedexterio A further *objectv of.

ie; i al. l i described, so constructed()l cap to be more readily.detached necessity of either jiiisertin into the mouth rof the bof capor withoutthe nece A the cap with-a tab.

Other objects will app,y lof the follonng descripti M rfinvention isillus'tr panying drawings, -wlizeiein Figure l a per.-specti'\" perportion of a'milk bottle constructed in accordance with my invention,the cap being shown spaced tlierefrom. Fig.' Q is an 100 enlargedvert-ical section showing the cap in place.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying 106drawing by the same reference characters. Referring to these figures,designates the milk bottle of the usual or ordinary shape. the upper endof which is'formed with a downwardly r^unded annular rim 3. A9116 lwillbe seen in Fig. 2, this rim forms .a

of. the rim out-ward of the outer circumference 'of the seat 4. slightlyundercut upon .the inner faces so as V to overhang the face and providefor a more complete and firm engagement with the stopper. dinarily usedwith milk bottles today, that is, it is made of a circular disk ofcardboard,

. and is designa-ted 7. The diameter of this stopper 7 is veryslightlygreater than the circle partially defined bythe inner faces 4this tilting laction cap being of 'the lug 6 so `that when the stopperis forced downupon the bottle its circumference will firmly engage theinner face of the lug 6 and the stopper `will be -irmly held in placetightly upon the seat 4, the stopper disk 4extending beyond the disk 4,entirely around the bottle. Under these circumstances, i dust orparticles of dust do collect upon the upper face of the-disk, and thebottle be inclined the dirt will not be caught` by the upwardlyextending annular angeof the bottle mouth, as would be the lcase inthepresent construction of bottles, but simply slips od and over therounded face 5 of the rim 3. Furthermore, as the disk 7,4 projectsbeyond `the seat 4, it is impossible the bottle.. qAgain, when raisingthe cap, the cap is .tilted in the usual manner, but does not'necessitate the tilted so asf to discharge the particles upon the upperface of the cap into the bottle or onto the seat 4f, but thecap issimply raised up at one side and Whatever particles may. be upon the:cap, or any liquid which may be upon the face ofthe cap slid off over'the rounded face 5 of the rim 3. Furthermore, a bottle constructed inaccordvthe bottle by simply taking These lugs (i may be- '.This stopperhas the form or#- for dirt particles to work theirI Wayaround the edges`of `the cap and into ance with mylinventlion permits the capgto bereadily raised from its engagement with edge of the disk and raising itup,

margin of the ca permitting ,the

cap to be easily takenhol of by the fingers or pried up by a fork.

lIt will be seen that 1n ofc the lordinary construction, and is soformed that the ed c of the cap may be pried up, Without di culty.

Having thus described my invention .what is claimed as new is 1. Abottle of the character described, having a downwardl rounded annularrim at its margin and a at annular cap-seat on a level with the vupperedge of` the said rounded rim, and a plurality' of cap-engaging lugsprojecting upward from the rim,

the inner facesof said lugs intersecting the rounded rim exterior to theouter circumference of the cap seat. v

2. A bottle .of the character` described, having a downwardl roundedannular rim at its mar n and a. at annular cap-seat on a level with theupper edge of the said rounded rim, and a plurality of'cap-engaging lugsprojecting upward from the rim, the inner faces otsaid lugs beingexterior to the outer circumference of the ca seat, the inner faces ofsaid lugs being slightly undercut.

3. A bottle of the `character described, having a downwardly roundedannular rim portion, and a fiat annular cap-seat extending inward fromthe upper edge of the rounded portion and defining the opening of themouth of the `cattle, in comblnation with a flat cap resting on saidcap-seat and extending on all sides beyond the cap-seat and over therounded portion ofthe rim, and means for holding said cap in place.

In testimon whereof I aiix my signature in presence o two witnesses.

HARVEY DIKEMAN. [n 5.] yWitnessesz v J osErH P. Donnn'rr, ARTHUR G.Knorr.

hold of theV the rounded face 5, in conjunction Withthe projectingbottle may -be con#A structed asV readily an Ycheaply as bottles

